Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at May 21, 2012, 1:20 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It took effect at May 22, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2012, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 22, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 22, 2012, 4:01 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
250 WWUS85 KPUB 211920 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 120 PM MDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... HIGH HAINES INDICES AND DRY FUELS...HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... WHICH INCLUDES TELLER COUNTY... COZ221-221130- /O.UPG.KPUB.FW.A.0013.120522T1800Z-120523T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0020.120522T1800Z-120523T0300Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE- 120 PM MDT MON MAY 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH HAINES INDICES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH HAINES INDICES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 9 PERCENT. * HAINES...6. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN AREAS WITH DRY FUELS. ANY NEW FIRE STARTS WILL LIKELY EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID WILDFIRE GROWTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ STARK
1 follow-up statement
590 WWUS85 KPUB 221001 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 401 AM MDT TUE MAY 22 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... COZ221-221115- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0020.120522T1800Z-120523T0300Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE- 401 AM MDT TUE MAY 22 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RECENT UPDATES TO THE FUELS STATUS INDICATE THAT FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221 IS NO LONGER CRITICAL. METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF WINDS AND HUMIDITIES WILL STILL REACH CRITICAL RANGES THIS AFTERNOON SO CAUTION TO AVOID FIRE STARTS IS STILL ADVISED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 8:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 31 min |
| May 21, 3:38 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 10 hr |
| May 21, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.